The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

As an Angus breeder, her cattle appeared in most of the top exhibitions throughout the
midwest.
Surviving are her husband, a manufacturer’s representative; two sons, Richard [WALL],
Jr., a student at Kanss State university, and Steven [WALL], at home; one daughter, Marcia
[WALL], a senior at Lebanon high school; one brother, William DENISTON, Rochester, and a
sister, Mrs. STETSON, Detroit.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete. The body is being returned to Lebanon.
Thursday, March 26, 1959
Dorothy Wall
Funeral services for Mrs. Dorothy DENISTON WALL, 50, a native of Rochester, will be
at 1 p.m. CST Saturday at the Presbyterian church in Lebanon. Burial will be there in the Dover
cemetery, Ind. 32, West. Friends may call at the Russell and Hitch funeral home in Lebanon.
Mrs. Wall died suddenly Wednesday morning of a heart attack at the home of friends in
Bloomfield, Mich., where she and her husband, Richard [WALL], were visiting while on their
way to Lansing. She was scheduled to appear on the program of the Michigan State university
Futurity Show and Sale.
The Walls reside at High Point Farms, R.R. 4, Lebanon, where they were engaged in the
breeding of Aberdeen Angus cattle. She was a former president of the American Aberdeen Angus
Auxiliary, the organizer and president of the Indiana Women’s Auxiliary and president of the
Indiana Womens Auxiliary and director of the West Central Angus association.
Mrs. Wall was an active member of the Manitou chapter of D.A.R. while she resided in
Rochester. During World War II the Walls resided in Indianapolis and she was the director of the
Civilian Defense Drivers Corps. She was featured in a “Whose Who of American Women,”
which was published recently.
She was the daughter of the late Mt. and Mrs. A. L. DENISTON, Rochester, a graduate
of Rochester high school and attended Indiana university.
The body was returned to Lebanon Thursday accompanied by Mr. Wall and her sister,
Mrs. Parker F. STETSON of Detroit. Her brother, William H. DENISTON, and wife left for
Lebanon this morning to be with the family.
Friday, March 27, 1959
Ella M. Hill
Mrs. Ella May PRIEST HILL, about 82, Plymouth, died this morning at Parkview
hospital, in Plymouth. Mrs. Hill was the widow of Edward M. HILL, who preceded her in death
May 27, 1955.
Mrs. Hill was born the daughter of Zachary T. and Lora Matilda LACKEY PRIEST. She
was married to Mr. Hill Dec. 25, 1898.
Surviving are three daughters, Miss Loreen HILL, at home, Mrs. Mildred SPARKS,
Hammond, and Mrs. Jenesee BARKER, Portage, Wis.
The body has been removed to the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home here. Funeral
arrangements are pending.